Chapter 11How Do I Stay on Purpose?

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: . . . a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4

Staying on purpose through the busy routines of work and life is not easy. Our daily routine often lacks a sense of ”why?” Life may appear to have no purpose, to serve no apparent ends.

Thus, we are in great need of deliberate reminders of the ”why.” Yet we create little time for regular relaxation and reflection. It is through open, focused refleaion that we see beneath the surface to the place where we know not with the mind but with the heart. Here our intuitive side recognizes a power beyond the natural and rational, and we are able ...

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